U.S. / Tags / Kidnapping

U.S. / NEWS Sun Mar 14, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- A November 1 trial date has been set for Brian David Mitchell, who is suspected in the 2002 kidnapping of Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart, said a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 9, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- A woman convicted in the 2002 kidnapping of Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart pleaded guilty in the attempted kidnapping of Smart's cousin a month later, court officials said Monday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 8, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- A Haitian attorney representing 10 Americans charged with kidnapping for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti told CNN Sunday he has resigned... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 17, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Wanda Barzee, accused with her hsuband of kidnapping Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart, has struck a plea bargain with federal prosecutors, court records show... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 13, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Phillip Garrido, who is accused of kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old and then holding her captive for 18 years, apologized in a jailhouse letter sent to a television station, the California station said Thursday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 18, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Authorities plan to use ground-penetrating radar Friday to scan property belonging to kidnapping suspects Phillip and Nancy Garrido... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 18, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Two cadaver dogs working separately each showed interest in the same area of property belonging to kidnapping suspects Phillip and Nancy Garrido, a possible indication of human remains, police said Thursday. The Garridos face a combined 29 felony counts in the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard. Police are seeking any evidence in the 1988 abduction of 9-year-old Michaela Garecht and the 1989 disappearance of 13-year-old Ilene Misheloff. Digging could begin as soon as Friday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Sep 7, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Fifteen years before the girl in the shed, there was the woman in the warehouse -- and at least one other woman who escaped capture. CNN reviewed the court file in Phillip Garrido's 1977 rape case, and it shows a pattern of sexual fantasy, abduction and bondage. Garrido with his wife is charged in the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard, who was found living in his backyard 18 years later... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 1, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Michaela Garecht was kidnapped in Hayward, California, in 1988, three years before the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard. "The method of kidnapping was the same. They were both dragged into cars. The description of the cars was very similar. The girls looked very much like each other," her mother tells CNN. Authorities are looking into whether Michaela's abduction and other unsolved kidnappings are related to the California kidnapping of Dugard... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Aug 29, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A Florida plumber was found guilty Friday of kidnapping and murdering a police detective's daughter at a trial in which his victim's voice filled the courtroom as her desperate 911 call was played to the jury... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 13, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A former Sunday school teacher accused of kidnapping, raping and murdering a Northern California girl -- her daughter's playmate -- pleaded not guilty at a Friday hearing, according to a court spokeswoman. Melissa Huckaby, 28, is charged in connection with the death of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu. Cantu disappeared March 27 and her body was found April 6, stuffed in a suitcase submerged in an irrigation pond... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 12, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- After more than 26 hours of deliberations, the jury has reached a verdict in the kidnapping trial of a German man who called himself Clark Rockefeller and passed himself off for years as a member of the moneyed clan... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jul 7, 2007 @ 11:50am neoform

FOX News -- Detectives arrested a 12-year-old girl and her 10-year-old sister on a kidnapping complaint on Thursday after they allegedly abducted their neighbor's 1-year-old son and held him for $200,000 ransom. Brandon Wells was safe back at home Thursday night,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Mar 11, 2007 @ 12:05pm neoform

CBS News -- A newborn baby kidnapped from a Texas hospital by a woman posing as a medical worker was found early Sunday safe in neighboring New Mexico, police said. Four-day-old Mychael Darthard-Dawodu was in good condition in the city of Clovis, about 100 miles n.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Feb 18, 2007 @ 12:20am neoform

Yahoo News -- A Marine who said he never fired a shot in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man was sentenced Saturday to 8 years in military prison — the longest sentence yet in the case. Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington, 22, also was reduced in rank and given.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 19, 2007 @ 4:49pm mrmdc

FOX News -- The parents of a 15-year-old Missouri boy said Friday their son was amazed to find his room virtually the same as when he had last seen it before he was abducted 4 1/2 years ago... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 26, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- An Ohio man already charged with murder in the deaths of 11 women has been indicted on new charges of kidnapping, attempted murder and felonious assault, a prosecutor announced Thursday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 9, 2010 @ 3:01pm neoform

CNN -- A group of Americans accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children had authorization from neighboring Dominican Republic to bring the kids across the border, a lawyer for the group said Monday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 5, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- With 10 American Baptist missionaries in Haiti now charged with kidnapping for attempting to take 33 children out of the country, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday the case is for Haiti to decide... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 5, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Ten Americans who were detained last week while trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country were charged Thursday with kidnapping and criminal association, a government official said... Read More